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I’m looking at it on my computer monitor, LCD. When I press play it’s blurry but when I press pause it becomes a hi res picture all of a sudden.

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I’m not sure what you mean. I put jpeg on timeline then enter Command+R to render and it plays but it’s blurry.

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I have the same problem actually, I put a picture on the time line and shows up with a soft gaussian blur even though I didn’t put any effect. It’s a hi res picture. Why is it doing that?

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Wow Thanks Chris!
So far that’s the best thing I have ever seen! Now to figure out how to tilt down and add more stars. I was afraid that it couldn’t be rendered in 1080 but it does, simply WOW! And it free!! No BS trial version.

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Sorry about the proceeding post. I actually know how to record but was sort of losing it because I wasn’t able to record anything. I have 2 mics, one is a microsoft sidewinder mic and the other is a M20 no brand name mic. Anyway I have the feeling my input on my MACPRO is busted but I don’t understand how my speakers function yet the mic does not.

1-film/video/internet (mainly for videos/voice overs/radio dramas)
2-explained in 1st paragraph(nothing special, I’d love to buy a -100$ mic if possible because I’m still a student and man everything in video/film/photography is expensive especially if you are not making any money and learning.
3- Don’t have a recording space right now but will probably get egg cardboard foam. and surround the person speaking so there’s no audio bouncing off walls.
4-Not applicable but I’m in the process of learning
5-I have soundtrack pro, adobe soundbooth/scores.

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Thanks for the reply. The “DV/NTSC” in easy setup, I already knew that thank you but it still doesn’t solve my problem. Let’s say I download a .MOV file from a friend and I import it onto an empty timeline, I still have to render to playback.

For the camcorder, that is the reason I am not buying a card based camcorder but wished there was one that offered another compression aside from MPEG4. (I know this is a bad compression was what I was trying to say)

I do label and do 10 min batch captures.

My only beef(problem) is the rendering. To be able to playback any footage on the timeline and I don’t understand why FCP 5.1.4 needs a render while Adobe CS3 has an open timeline
that you can playback without rendering.

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I got feedback from some people telling to put all my VHS, 8mm tapes to DV. I guess I just need to buy a VHS with S-Video output, DV or RGBWY component, a 8mm(Hi-8 is the same?) with S-video or DV to a DV deck and record. (I also need to buy DV deck)

What do you guys think? Will this be expensive? Dv Tapes are better then DVD’s right?

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I hope I can get this done. This is a little depressing haha.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I’m going to inquire on a DV deck, VHS player and Hi-8 camera(with s-video hopefully).

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I have to now figure out what to buy. hahaha I was hoping to save more space with less tapes. I saw a few VHS/DVD combos with a DV cable, s-video, RGBWYcomponent cable and regular RWY cable.

What do you suggest I get in terms of models? Are there any 8mm cameras with S-video? What’s a timebase corrector?(For time code? I usually do 10 batch captures and on VHS I do manual captures in 10 minute batches)

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Hmmm, so basically I should transfer everything to mini DV tapes? So I need a cheap used sony 8mm video camera, a pretty good VHS player and a mini DV/HDV deck?. I was worried using the Red, White and Yellow cables because of the signal.